wine users - Jun 2016 - Since wine 1.9.11 - How to get rid of the new bar below the game window?

Greetings,

beginning with wine 1.9.11 I have a new bar below the game window which
effectively steals part of the usable area. Here is a screenshot of
Gothic I.

http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/wine-1.9.11.png (931 KB)

No desktop environment here, only IceWM. My games are started with shell
scripts which cd to the directory of the game and then run 'wine
program'. In the case of Gothic I

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hafi at i5-64 ~ $ cat `which g1`
#!/bin/bash
cd ~/'.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/JoWooD/Gothic/system/'
wine gothic
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There has to be a parameter when calling a program which disables this
new bar. Or at least a simple way to get rid of it after the game is
started. Perhaps it is simple for someone familiar with Windows.

What to do? :)

Hartmut

Hello,

Gothic has problems with the titlebar for a long time. This may or may
not be related.

Bisecting the git versions reveals that the change has been introduced
by this commit:
45b2b1f09b30b01726685983dd8e3edb42c1fd1c is the first bad commit
commit 45b2b1f09b30b01726685983dd8e3edb42c1fd1c
Author: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
Date:   Fri May 27 21:08:44 2016 +0900

    explorer: Add a helper function to resize and display the tray window.

    Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>

This probably should be reported as a bug. Will you do it?


Other than that, you can set the right resolution in Gothic.ini to avoid
this bug. However, Gothic may automatically reset your resolution
settings. I therefore suggest you adapt your script to make sure your
resolution settings are applied each time you run Gothic:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/'.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/JoWooD/Gothic/system/'
cat Gothic.ini | sed
's/zVidResFullscreenX=640/zVidResFullscreenX=1024/;s/zVidResFullscreenY=480/zVidResFullscreenY=768/;s/zVidResFullscreenBPP=16/zVidResFullscreenBPP=32/'
> GOTHIC.INI2
mv GOTHIC.INI2 Gothic.ini
wine gothic

The entire sed command should be on one line. Please use the resolution
appropriate for your display instead of 1024×768. Make sure it is the
same resolution you use for your virtual desktop in winecfg. You may
need to start and quit Gothic once before the new settings take effect.
It works for me at least.

Regards,
Florian Pelz

On 06/23/2016 10:50 PM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
> cd ~/'.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/JoWooD/Gothic/system/'
> cat Gothic.ini | sed
>
's/zVidResFullscreenX=640/zVidResFullscreenX=1024/;s/zVidResFullscreenY=480/zVidResFullscreenY=768/;s/zVidResFullscreenBPP=16/zVidResFullscreenBPP=32/'
>> GOTHIC.INI2
> mv GOTHIC.INI2 Gothic.ini
> wine gothic
> 
Even better script with sed -i, still one line:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/'.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/JoWooD/Gothic/system/'
sed -i
's/zVidResFullscreenX=640/zVidResFullscreenX=1024/;s/zVidResFullscreenY=480/zVidResFullscreenY=768/;s/zVidResFullscreenBPP=16/zVidResFullscreenBPP=32/'
Gothic.ini
wine gothic

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz):
>Gothic has problems with the titlebar for a long time. This may or may
>not be related.
Gothic was only an example. Almost all of my games now show this
behaviour. Might & Magic 6 to 9, Morrowind, Oblivion. There is one
exception though, Wizardry 8 is not affected.
>Bisecting the git versions reveals that the change has been introduced
>by this commit:
>45b2b1f09b30b01726685983dd8e3edb42c1fd1c is the first bad commit
>commit 45b2b1f09b30b01726685983dd8e3edb42c1fd1c
>Author: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
>Date:   Fri May 27 21:08:44 2016 +0900
>    explorer: Add a helper function to resize and display the tray window.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
Thanks for that. For SeaMonkey I do sometimes the same in Mercurial.
>This probably should be reported as a bug. Will you do it?
But I'm not sure if this is a bug or done on purpose. ;) I am used to
strange decisions for SeaMonkey.

Hartmut

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian at pelzflorian.de>
writes:
> Hello,
>
> Gothic has problems with the titlebar for a long time. This may or may
> not be related.
>
> Bisecting the git versions reveals that the change has been introduced
> by this commit:
> 45b2b1f09b30b01726685983dd8e3edb42c1fd1c is the first bad commit
> commit 45b2b1f09b30b01726685983dd8e3edb42c1fd1c
> Author: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
> Date:   Fri May 27 21:08:44 2016 +0900
>
>     explorer: Add a helper function to resize and display the tray window.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
>
> This probably should be reported as a bug. Will you do it?
This should already be fixed in git. The fix will be included in 1.9.13.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org